KAMALOKA is the new album by Max Clouth and the Clan. It takes us on a road trip, giving us the music for an episode movie shot on the roads between Germany and India. Kamaloka is a term from Sanskrit and comes from ancient Indian culture. It literally translates as “place of desire”, where one detaches oneself from the material world.
Line up:
Drums - Martin Standke
Guitar - Max Clouth
Bass - Markus Wach
Piano & keyboard - Winfried Rimbach-Sator
Special guest:
Varijashree Venugopal
Max is one of those people who constantly reinvents the existing, who calls multiple worlds his home and who travels to develop new perspectives and broaden his horizons.
In his Clan, Max is joined by musicians who share this vision of creating music. The steady process of reorientation draws us into spheres of sound/ soundscapes that bridge influences and contexts. From Frankfurt to Mumbai, Indian rock is combined with a solid jazz foundation. Jazz as interpreted by the Max Clouth Clan is so richly layered and influenced by a multitude of styles it ultimately escapes categorisation.
Photo: © Robert Zolles
The world as our home, the world inside ourselves – in constant flow. On their new album, this flow yet again takes us back to India. Our questions wash up on its shores as we imagine what life feels like there. The unknown is naturally filled with our own, well-known images as we seem to recognise German landscapes or perhaps Californian ease. Each song of the Clan’s diverse repertoire is injected with the soul of a well-established style or genre and then inspired with new life. And the result? A deep awareness that life is but a wild current of melodies.
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